Re: Confessions of a CoBOL programmer

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Alistair <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 29 Mar, 01:13, docdw...@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:
In article
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Have you been a student of philosophy or should I be enquiring as to
how you can afford the time to research all of your answers?

I have read a few things on the backs of several cereal-boxes here and
there, Mr Maclean... no, wait, Prior Analytics would be on the front, on
the back one should find Posterior Analytics.  This wonderful web-thingie
allows for rapid research and citing, yes... but the old form of 'Author,
Title, (publisher, edition, printing), book, chapter, section, paragraph,
sentence, word' for citing was one I learned long before it existed.

So it is down to t'web and not any edikashun you have been subjected
to? I suppose answering an answer with a question is no question/
answer either.

Questions and answers can alternate rather nicely, Mr Maclean... I've
studied a few things in a few places, some formally, some informally...
and they all have the same thing in common in that they all show me how
much more studying I would find to be pleasureable. I've read, among
others, portions of Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, the Old and New Testaments,
La Rouchefoucauld, Moliere, Schiller, Mozart, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud,
Maxwell, Einstein and a few others in the original... I'm not sure if
makes me to have been a student of geometry, philosophy, natural
philosophy (science), religion, more philosophy, drama, music, more
philosophy, science, psychology, electromagnetic theory or relativity.

But... what matters it what I've read? Long ago I heard an aphorism,
'Some scholars are like donkeys, all they do is carry a load of books'...
and it struck me that one might carry such a load on one's back or between
one's ears. If all one is doing is carrying... then it seems donkey-work
all the same.

DD

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